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As I explained in my previous articles, I was pre-eclamptic and was admitted to the hospital at 37 weeks. I had a migraine that lasted for ten hours after I entered the emergency room. I had experienced migraines before and knew that Tylenol wouldn't ease the pain, so I went untreated even in the hospital. About twelve hours after admission, I was brought to the women's floor, where I waited for my already injected Levemir supply to diminish in my bloodstream.
When they brought me down to the labor and delivery wing, I was already exhausted from the headache pain, and the medical staff's continuous efforts to check on me had kept me from sleep. When the nurses began hooking me up to an IV insulin drip, I didn't argue because I knew that I didn't have the stamina to monitor my insulin needs on my own. Before and during pregnancy, I used Apidra for bolus insulin. However, the only IV drip the hospital had for bolus insulin was Regular, which I hadn't used since 2003. Surprisingly, I went from severe insulin resistance, needing nearly 30 units per meal, to needing only one or two units per hour, even without basal insulin. Nurses checked my glucose every hour and ensured that I remained in the 70 to 140 mg/dL range throughout my labor.
The hospital staff started to induce me by first attempting to ripen my cervix using Cervidil, which was used specifically not to put me into labor. Three hours later, though, I was having intense contractions and my cervix was dilated to two centimeters. Cervidil had started the labor process.
The contractions were steady and strong, and I was still not on any pain medication. I wanted to get up and walk around the ward to help ease the pain, but at that point I was hooked up to four IVs (insulin drip, saline solution, Pitocin not yet administered, and another I don't recall). There was also a baby heart monitor wrapped around my swollen belly to keep track of my baby's movements and heartbeat. If I so much as shifted onto my side, the baby monitor would slip and a nurse would have to come in and re-adjust the belt. I was very frustrated, tired, anxious, and in pain.
My OB/GYN came in to check on me and estimated that I was three centimeters dilated after six hours of labor. She broke my bag of waters with an instrument to move the labor along. We both wanted to have a vaginal delivery if at all possible. Around the same time, my OB/GYN installed an internal baby monitor. The staff then removed the baby monitor belt from my waist, so I could shift as I pleased as long as I didn't kink the IV lines going into four different locations in my arms.
I felt like I was strapped to the bed, but I took comfort from hearing my baby's heart beating in the monitor receiver next to my ear, knowing that I would be able to meet her in just a few more hours.
The contractions were coming every two minutes and lasting for about 30 or 45 seconds each. Had I not been so exhausted from having spent over 24 hours in the hospital, I might have been better able to withstand the pain. As things were, however, I was vomiting to cope with labor.
At fifteen hours, my OB/GYN announced that I was four centimeters dilated. Having progressed only one centimeter since the last time she checked, I took the epidural.
I progressed very quickly during the next six hours, getting to seven centimeters dilated with ease. My blood sugars were still perfectly on target, and I was able to take a few 20-minute naps to prepare for the part where I'd have to push. My baby, however, was having difficulty.
After 21 hours of labor, her heart rate dropped with every contraction, revealing that she was in distress.
The staff watched us closely for 20 minutes more, and then my OB/GYN came in to prepare me for a cesarean section. After all of the labor and worry, and with nothing going awry with my diabetes care, I was about to face the thing I feared most. My lowered immune system was going to have to cope with my being cut open so that my baby could be born into this world.
Throughout the entire C-section I trembled, not from pain, but from adrenaline and pure fear. Maybe I don't have the nerves of steel that I thought I did. Twenty minutes later, my husband had our daughter cradled in his arms, holding her next to me so I could kiss her face. It turned out that she didn't have a soft spot, so couldn't come down the birth canal. She weighed 9.4 pounds and was 20 inches long, hardly a chunky baby, but strong.
I was still terrified about how I would recover from the surgery, but I was also overcome with relief that my baby was healthy. In my next article, I'll share my experiences as a new mother recovering from the operation.
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5:20pm Thursday 12th December 2013 in News
Essex Police is warning motorists not to even think about drink driving.
A force spokesman said: "Essex Police takes the issue of drink driving seriously all year round.
"However during December and the New Year period officers make a concerted effort to crack down on the crime to ensure that people across the county have a Christmas to remember for the right reasons.
Casualty Reduction Manager Adam Pipe said: "The message from Essex Police is don't take the chance as drink driving can have devastating consequences. Make sure you arrange your lift home in advance, whether it is by train, bus, taxi or a designated driver. Don't drive if you are going to have a drink."
As part of the campaign officers will be: • patrolling both in town centres and in rural areas, especially the places where drivers think they are less likely to get caught • focussing on particular areas on particular nights, using automatic number plate recognition equipment to target people who have committed offences or who are driving vehicles that have previously come to police notice • working closely with CCTV operators in town and city centres so if somebody is seen leaving a pub and club and spotted on camera as being intoxicated and they then get into the driver's seat of the car, police will be alerted Residents are also being asked to help police to keep the county's roads safe by reporting people who they know drink and drive. They can call 999, 101 or make an anonymous call to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Mr Pipe added: "Drink driving is taking a risk, not only with your own life but those of your passengers and other innocent people on the road. It can result in a criminal record, the loss your driving licence or a fine of up to £5000. If you kill or injure someone you could face up to 14 years in prison."
During December last year 3,263 people were breathalysed, 126 were found to be over the legal limit of 35 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath.
This year (from December 1 to 11) Essex Police has so far carried out 1,271 breath tests, resulting in 35 arrests of people who were over the limit.
Last Monday, police forces across East Anglia and Lotus Cars joined together to present a united front against drink driving.
Lotus is working with the region's police by providing a fully liveried Lotus Evora S to help officers engage with drivers and spread the word about the Fatal Four driving behaviours*, which include drink driving.
*Fatal Four driving behaviours are drink driving; speeding; not wearing a seatbelt; and driving whilst using a mobile phone.
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9:56pm Thu 12 Dec 13
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Another issue that warrants consideration is the last statement that lists talking on a mobile the fourth largest contributor to fatalities whilst driving. I'd seriously question this and also demand that the stats be provided AND reviewed by an independent body before this sort of hyperbole is spewed. I do not think drinking and driving or talking on the phone whilst driving are particularly efficacious behaviours but let's not get irrational about this. And let's NOT be pre-judged by jack-booted and arrogant police that more and more resemble what they really are migrating towards - armed militia. Just like in Amerika.
9:56pm Thu 12 Dec 13
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6:56am Fri 13 Dec 13
Meherenow says...
7:52am Fri 13 Dec 13
Bhudeeka says...
2:22pm Fri 13 Dec 13
/@|_|@\ says...
And I resent that with a passion.
1:51am Sat 14 Dec 13
e5mitch says...
Still at least they get to smoke around in a lotus!!
5:52pm Sat 14 Dec 13
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7:44pm Sat 14 Dec 13
pierre-pierre says...
Can see a car nearly every day with one headlight out, nearly ad dangerous as drunk driving
10:11am Sun 15 Dec 13
OMPITA [Intl] says...
It didn't cause me to loose any respect for the police whatsoever, in fact quite the opposite.
On both occasions they were courteous and gave very good and understandable reasons for having stopped me. The fact that I was stone cold sober each time caused me no resentment at all.
I am all for random spot checks without any obvious justification and I fail to see why any normal law abiding person should think differently. Bring them on I say!
Apart from the Undertakers and Florists I can't think who else might actually be disadvantaged.
1:31pm Sun 15 Dec 13
pierre-pierre says...
one near Heathrow, had a shunt at a pedestrina crossing, so had a clear breathe test
Another near Stansted on A120, late at night Police checking all cars, again clear
Cant remember where I had the third, but that is also clear.
Doesnt worry me, I do drink wine, but not when driving, got a very old licence with only one blemish for speeding, 40 in a 30 area.
3:25pm Tue 17 Dec 13
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Additionally, I can not for the life of me see how one can equate a busted headlight with drunk driving: that's a helluva stretch there, Frenchy!
3:48pm Tue 17 Dec 13
keith_l says...
The villains of this story are the drink drivers, and also those people who drink with them knowing that they are going to drive home (often buying them drinks and encouraging them to have one for the road).
In pure scientific terms the amount of alcohol in your body affects your driving by (a) reducing your reaction times and (b) giving you a false bravado that encourages you to take risks.
One unit per measure of spirits or small glass of wine. Two units for large glasses of wine, pints of weak beer and bottles of strong lager. Three or more units for pints of beer over 4%. Depending on your body weight and composition, three to five units will fail a breath or blood test. It takes the average body one hour per unit to break down the alcohol. However, the experts say that even one unit left in your bloodstream is enough to affect your driving ability.
9:50pm Tue 17 Dec 13
OMPITA [Intl] says...
You are so right! The 'drink drivers' (and all too often their 'accessories after the fact') are the villains of the plot – let's not lose sight of that.
Who are the police? Just stop and think for a moment. They are the people who we as a society club together to pay for (i.e. via our taxes) to do our dirty work for us at all hours of the day, under all conditions, and often at great personal risk. We should be da*n grateful for their unswerving commitment.
If anyone is unhappy about how well the police perform then why don't they volunteer their own services in one form or another to make a positive contribution towards improving the service instead of constantly and fecklessly carping inanely from the side-lines as they do?
They might think it's fashionable among their low life low-intellect peers to constantly whine and senselessly criticise, but they'd have a hell of lot more to complain about if there were no police at all!
I strongly suspect anyway that much of the insidious puerile anti-police sniping is nothing more than the sour grapes jealous reaction of those who perhaps secretly aspired to a career in the police - but the realities of their physical or mental limitations put paid to any such dreams.
10:08pm Tue 17 Dec 13
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Regardless, I will agree with one poster: I was indeed very grateful to the ol' Bill last night -- they kept a low profile at ye olde doughnut shoppe and so I got home just fine. Again. Phew!
Happy Christmas occifers!
11:11pm Tue 17 Dec 13
OMPITA [Intl] says...
Trying to get a good night's kip in here is hopeless. If big Charlie ain't up and down the ladder to and from the top bunk once, he's up and down it a dozen times a night. Creaking and squeaking; thumping and bumping - he drives me bl**dy crazy. I never to get sleep more than half an hour before he's off on another of his nocturnal jaunts to the heads.
Still, I've told the quack about my sleep problems and convinced him to give me 25 milligrams of Ambien every Friday. Fantastic stuff! It works perfectly.
I tip the lot into Charlies mug of Milo and he sleeps through the night like a baby - and I get to wake up every Saturday morning like a new man!
As for Charlie we've given him a new nickname 'Zolpidem'. Of course he's gone and confused it with 'Zorro' and taken to wearing a black hat, mask and cape. They had to take a broom handle off of the silly old sod yesterday because was swinging it around like swordsman possessed of the devil.
Only three nights to go!
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In an affidavit filed by Carter County Sheriff's Department Deputy Michele Meade, the officer reports responding at 10:23 p.m. to a domestic disturbance at 643 Poga Road in Butler.
She said she met with 45-year-old Claude Harvey Banner, who told her he and his girlfriend were arguing at the residence after she accused him of "making passes" at her 20-year-old daughter.
Meade said Banner told her he fired his .45-caliber handgun into the floor of the home and then hit his girlfriend in the face with the weapon.
The deputy said Banner told her that he "thought about retrieving more guns from his safe and going back to the home and cleaning house," but stated he then "changed his mind."
The woman told Meade that Banner did fire the weapon inside the home, but denied that he struck her in the face.
Meade said she did not appear to have any redness, bruising or swelling on her face.
Banner was arrested and charged with possession of a handgun while under the influence of alcohol, aggravated domestic assault and reckless endangerment.
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Terry is a lot of things, but he's a honest guy. He's the mini KG that we need. He coughed up to the mistake on defense that led to Jennings game winning three. I think his want to help the team, and his brutal honesty is a plus that we don't see everyday. I spoke about Avery returning this morning, and it's unclear what role Bradley, and Terry will play. What we do know is that Terry will take any role with open arms. He wants to win, and at any cost, much like KG. Can't say enough about Terry.
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Sha'ban is the name of the (eigth) month of the Islamic lunar calendar, and it is so called because in this month the Arabs used to disperse (tasha'aba) in search of water, or it was said that it is so called because it sha'aba (branches out or emerges) i.e., it appears between the months of Rajab and Ramadan.
Fasting in Sha'ban
'A'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "The Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him - PBUH) used to fast until we thought he would never break his fast, and not fast until we thought he would never fast. I never saw the Messenger of Allah fasting for an entire month except in Ramadan, and I never saw him fast more than he did in Sha'ban." (Narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim). According to a report narrated by Muslim, "He used to fast all of Sha'ban, he used to fast all but a little of Sha'ban."
A group of scholars, including Ibn al-Mubarak and others, thought that the Prophet did not fast all of Sha'ban, but he fasted most of it. This is supported by a report in Saheeh Muslim narrated from 'A'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her), who said: "I never knew of him - meaning the Prophet (PBUH) - fasting for any entire month apart from Ramadan." According to another report also narrated by Muslim, A'ishah said: "I never saw him fast for any entire month from the time he came to Madeenah, apart from Ramadan."
It was reported in al-Bukhari and Muslim that Ibn 'Abbas said: "The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) did not fast any entire month apart from Ramadan." Ibn 'Abbas regarded it as makrooh to fast any entire month apart from Ramadan. Ibn Hajar (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "He observed more voluntary fasts in Sha'ban than in any other month, and he used to fast most of Sha'ban."
Usamah ibn Zayd (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, I do not see you fasting in any other month like you fast in Sha'ban.' He said, 'That is a month to which people do not pay attention, between Rajab and Ramadan, and it is a month in which deeds are lifted up to the Lord of the Worlds. I like for my deeds to be lifted up when I am fasting.'" (Narrated by al-Nasa'i). According to a report narrated by Abu Dawood, he said: "The most beloved of months for the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) to fast in was Sha'ban, and his fasting in Sha'ban was continuous with his fasting in Ramadan." (Classed as saheeh by al-Albani)
Ibn Rajab (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Fasting in Sha'ban is better than fasting in the Sacred Months, and the best of voluntary fasts are those that are (observed in the months) closest to Ramadan, before or after. The status of these fasts is like that of al-Sunan al-Rawatib which are done before and after fard (obligatory prayers) and which make up for any shortfall in the number of obligatory prayers. The same applies to fasts observed before and after Ramadan. Just as al-Sunan al-Rawatib are better than other kinds of voluntary prayers, so fasts observed (in the months) before and after Ramadan are better than fasts at other times.
The phrase "Sha'ban is a month to which people do not pay attention, between Rajab and Ramadan" indicates that because it comes between two important months, the Sacred Month of Rajab and the month of fasting, people are preoccupied with those two months and they do not pay attention to Sha'ban. Many people think that fasting in Rajab is better than fasting in Sha'ban, because Rajab is one of the Sacred Months, but this is not the case.
In the hadeeth quoted above there is an indication that even though certain times, places and people may be commonly thought to posses a particular virtue, there may be others that are better than them. It also indicates that it is mustahabb (recommended) to make good use of the times when people tend to be negligent, by doing acts of worship. A group of the Salaf used to fill the time between Maghrib and 'Isha' with prayer, saying that it was a time when many people were negligent. Another example is the remembrance of Allah (dhikr) in the marketplace, because this means one is remembering Him in a place where people tend to be negligent and among people who are negligent. There are a number of benefits that come from making good use of times when people are often negligent, and using these times for worship, including the following:
It is more concealing of one's good works, and hiding and concealing nawafil (supererogatory) actions is better, especially fasting, because it is a secret between a slave and his Lord. Hence it was said that there is no element of showing off in fasting. One of the Salaf used to fast for years without anybody knowing about it; he would go from his home to the marketplace carrying two loaves of bread, which he would give away in charity, and he would fast. His family thought that he ate the bread, whilst the people in the marketplace thought that he had eaten at home. The Salaf thought it was mustahabb for a person who was fasting to do things that would conceal the fact that he was fasting. It was reported that Ibn Mas'ood said: "When you get up in the morning and you are fasting, then apply perfume." Qutadah said: "It is mustahabb for the [man] who is fasting to apply perfume so that there will be no sign that he is fasting."
By the same token, doing righteous deeds at times when people are distracted and negligent is more difficult. One of the indications of how virtuous a deed is, is how difficult it is: if everyone is doing a certain action, it is easy, but if most people are negligent, this makes it more difficult for those who do remember Allah. Muslim narrated from the hadeeth of Ma'qil ibn Yasar: "[The Prophet (PBUH) said:] 'Worship at times of tribulation (fitnah) is like Hijrah to me.'" (The phrase "worship at times of tribulation" refers to times of upheavals and trials, when people follow their own desires, and those who adhere to Islam are doing something difficult.)
The scholars differed as to the reasons why the Prophet (PBUH) fasted so much in Sha'ban. Their various opinions were as follows:
That he had been unable to fast three days out of every month because he was traveling or for some other reason, so he made them all up together in Sha'ban. When the Prophet (PBUH) began to do some nafl (supererogatory) action, he would persist in it, and if he missed it, he would make it up later.
It was said that his wives used to make up the days that they missed of Ramadan in Sha'ban, so he used to fast because of that. This is the opposite of what was reported from 'A'ishah, that she used to delay making up days that she had missed in Ramadan until Sha'ban because she was too busy with the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) to fast.
It was said that it was because this is a month which people do not pay attention to. This is the most correct view, because of the hadeeth of Usamah quoted above, in which it says: "That is a month to which people do not pay attention, between Rajab and Ramadan."
When Sha'ban began, if the Prophet (PBUH) still had some voluntary fasts outstanding that he had not fasted, he would make them up during Sha'ban so that his nafl fasts would be complete before Ramadan came. Similarly, if he had missed some Sunnah prayers or he had missed Qiyam al-Layl (night prayer), he would make it up. 'A'ishah used to make the most of this opportunity to make up any obligatory Ramadan fasts that she had missed because of menstruation; during other months she was too busy with the Prophet (PBUH) to fast.
We should also note here that anyone who has any missed fasts to make up has to make them up before the next Ramadan comes. It is not permissible to delay it until after the following Ramadan except in cases of necessity (such as a valid excuse that continues between the two Ramadans). Whoever is able to make them up before the (second) Ramadan and does not do so, has to make them up after the (second) Ramadan and in addition to that, he has to repent and to feed one poor person for each day that he missed. This is the view of Malik, al-Shafa'i and Ahmad.
Another benefit of fasting in Sha'ban is that it is a kind of training for the Ramadan fast, in case a person finds it difficult to fast when Ramadan starts; if he fasts in Sha'ban he will have gotten used to fasting and he will feel strong and energetic when Ramadan comes. Sha'ban is like an introduction to Ramadan and it has some things in common with Ramadan, such as fasting, reciting Qur'an and giving in charity. Salamah ibn Suhayl used to say: "The month of Sha'ban is the month of reciters (of the Qur'an)." Habeeb ibn Abi Thabit used to say, when Sha'ban came, "This is the month of reciters (of the Qur'an)." When Sha'ban came, 'Amr ibn Qays al-Mala'i used to close his store and devote his time to reading the Qur'an.
Fasting at the end of Sha'ban
It was reported in al-Bukhari and Muslim from 'Imran ibn Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (PBUH) said to a man, "Have you fasted anything of the sirar of this month?" He said, "No." He said: "If you have not fasted, then fast two days." According to a report narrated by al-Bukhari: I think he meant Ramadan. According to a report narrated by Muslim, (the Prophet - PBUH) said: "Have you fasted anything of the sirar of Sha'ban?"
There was some dispute as to the meaning of the word sirar. The most well known view is that it refers to the end of the month. The end of the month is called sirar because the moon is hidden at that time. Someone may raise the point that it was reported in al-Bukhari and Muslim from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (PBUH) said: "Do not pre-empt Ramadan by one or two days, except for those who have the habit of fasting regularly, in which case they may fast." (Reported by al-Bukhari and Muslim).
How can we reconcile the hadeeth which encourages fasting at this time with the hadeeth which says not to fast at this time? The answer is: many of the scholars and most of those who commented on this hadeeth said: this man to whom the Prophet (PBUH) addressed this question was known to have the habit of fasting regularly, or else he had made a vow, so the Prophet (PBUH) commanded him to make up his fast. There are also other points of view on this issue.
In brief we may say that there are three scenarios for fasting at the end of Sha'ban:
The first scenario is when a person fasts at the end of Sha'ban with the intention of being on the safe side and not missing the first day of Ramadan. This is forbidden.
The second scenario is when a person fasts with the intention of fulfilling a vow or of making up a day of Ramadan that he missed or as an act of expiation (kaffarah), etc. This is permissible according to the majority.
The third scenario is when this is purely a voluntary fast. This is regarded as makrooh (disliked) by those who said that we should differentiate between Sha'ban and Ramadan by not fasting for a while. Among those who said this was al-Hasan. If it happens to coincide with a day when a person habitually fasts, Malik and those who agreed with him permitted this, but al-Shafa'i, al-'Awza'i, Ahmad and others made a distinction between cases where it is a fast which a person habitually observes or otherwise.
In conclusion, the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah quoted above is what we should follow according to the majority of scholars. It is makrooh to observe a voluntary fast one or two days before Ramadan for those who do not habitually fast on those days and who have not previously fasted until the end of Sha'ban.
It may be asked: why is it makrooh to fast just before Ramadan (for those who do not have a prior habit of fasting)? The answer is that there are a number of reasons why this is so, such as:
Firstly: lest extra days be added to the fast of Ramadan that are not part of it. Fasting on the day of Eid is prohibited for the same reason, lest we fall into the same trap as the People of the Book with regard to fasting, as they added to their fasts because of their own whims and desires. For the same reason it is also forbidden to fast on the "day of doubt". 'Ammar said: whoever fasts on this day has disobeyed Abu'l-Qasim (PBUH). The "day of doubt" is a day when people are not sure whether it is Ramadan or not, when news of the sighting of the crescent moon comes from one whose word cannot be accepted. As for a cloudy day, some of the 'ulama' said that this was also a 'day of doubt' and said that fasting was not allowed on this day. This is the view of the majority.
Secondly: to make a distinction between fard (obligatory) fasts and nafl fasts, because making a clear distinction between fard actions and nafl actions is prescribed in Islam. Hence it is haram to fast on the day of Eid, and the Prophet (PBUH) forbade following an obligatory prayer immediately with another prayer unless they are separated by saying salam or speaking, especially in the case of the Sunnah prayer performed just before Fajr. It is prescribed to make a clear separation between this prayer and the obligatory prayer. Hence it is prescribed to pray it at home and to lie down aftSome ignorant people may think that the reason why we do not fast just before Ramadan is so that we can make the most of eating and have our fill of our desires before we have to deny ourselves by fasting. This is an ignorant mistake on the part of those who think this.
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As appeared in Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Volume 19, freely translated by Mattia Moretti.
Commonly referred to be the minor art craft, design is now often in a critical economic situation, while the commercial art itself is undergoing a decided improvement process. By the point of view of the artisan it is therefore understandably how difficult is to recognize this last fact. It seems the actual artistic production tends to eliminate the matter of the subject, and only point out the beauty of the constriction style. Alan has drawn contras with the mediating sentence: The art design is moving in a wavy line, the depth of the constructions form follows the height of the ornament.
This internal process can be seen when on the question: What is actually an ornament? – Reflect.
Our time is looking for the naked scope, pure form, the design, material-and specialty-use item!Outwardly, it seems as if they do it for the sake of fashion. But in reality it just by looking – the ornament.
That this effort meets us in the form of a dogma, we could easily understand if we consider that the despotism of the unreal hollow ornament was of course an extreme reaction yield. Basically hostility is only against the false Ornaments, the useless ornaments. The ornament is the non-purpose expression, opposed to the heightened artistic expression.
Any request to the aesthetic of usage, imposed by the practical man himself, attracts an aesthetic, artistic, therefore it is supposed to be the goal of the artistic product by itself. The more civilized man, is the one who is completely involved in his way of life. And this indeed dictated the purpose of utilities. The more purified is the life style, the more so is the form of the object.
The shape is adorned in a clean way to enhance the functional form. Contrasts are then eliminated by Jewelry form and functional role. And all the argument about which of the two is the "right" is completely passing over.
Logically, the Ornament could – but should be part of a developed, healthy functional form – despite all the efforts made by craftsmen to avoid it. Empire and Biedermeier period are not our style. We have a different view of life than our fathers case, a different spirit. But our spirit and our view of life have emerged from those, and so must our style emerge from that time.
Thus it is clear that we end the bare preaching style, because we stay for the ornaments. The primitive functional form is no longer the expression for the nowadays selfish Aesthetics of enjoyment. We need to achieve the new Ornament! – We should all want the ornament. We fight for it as we defend the truthfulness of the utility object. And then, the battle cry: Here ornaments! Construction form here!
There is no overcoming in Ornament. Walt Whitman's words: a thing is without ornament at its best! – Is only partly correct. To deal with things with and without ornament is in art actually impossible. The ornament we recognize from the thing itself is what we may safely pronounce, without any doubt that for us the spirit of embellishment which cannot reach the depths of our souls is hateful. – PAUL BROECKER (HAMBURG.)
In a famous essay entitled "Et in Arcadia Ego: Poussin and the Elegiac Tradition", the art historian and philosopher of art Erwin Panofsky takes in exam the influences of the influencing Latin motto "Et in Arcadia Ego" in the history of art. In particular, the essay of Panofsky is centered on the figure of the French artist Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) and his influencing painting "Les Bergers d'Arcadie".
The Latin sentence itself is a sort of recurring Motto in Latin literature:
The first appearance of a tomb with a memorial inscription (to Daphnis) amid the idyllic settings of Arcadia appears in Virgil's Eclogues V 42 ff. Virgil took the idealized Sicilian rustics that had first appeared in the Idylls of Theocritusand set them in the primitive Greek district of Arcadia (see Eclogues VII and X). The idea was taken up anew in the circle of Lorenzo de' Medici in the 1460s and 1470s, during the Florentine Renaissance
Taken by Wikipedia, voice "Et in Arcadia Ego"
In the history of visual art, we encounter the this theme in a painting by Guercino:
Quite surprisingly, Panofsy in his essay takes into consideration, as first insight, one of the latest interpretation of the theme, due to the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds:
Reynolds explained the presence of the Latin sentence as a sort of memento of the ineluctability of death. He also reported that even King George III who had seen the painting said, "ay, ay, death is even in Arcadia."
The point here gives to Panofsky the opportunity to clarify the meaning and interpretation of "Arcadia":
in the imagination of Virgil, and of Virgil alone, that the concept of Arcady, as we know it, was born— a bleak and chilly district of Greece came to be transfigured into an imaginary realm of perfect bliss. But no sooner had this new, Utopian Arcady come into being than a discrepancy was felt between the supernatural perfection of an imaginary environment and the natural limitations of human life as it is.
Erwin Panofsky, "Et in Arcadia Ego & the Elegiac Tradition"
The literary and allegoric myth usually associated with Arcadia depicted the simple mannered delights of "Arcady", a dreaming folk is seeking to retreat from the pressures and complexities of urban life, in a pastoral country. Likewise, her warriors were seen as wild and uncouth highlanders who would rush headlong into battle wearing only the skin of wolves, bears or sheep (Paus. 4.11.3, cf. 8.1.5). Polybios, himself an Arcadian, calls his fellow countrymen "primitive" (4.21.2), while Strabon, a non-Arcadian, describes them as "wholly mountaineers" (8.1.2). Although this simplicity of the Arcadian character was to be idealised by Roman poets, the Arcadians did not possess an equal reputation for intelligence. Juvenal calls a blockhead an "Arcadian youth" (7.160), and even as late as the third century AD we witness Philostratos describing the Arcadians as "the most boorish of men" who lived in "squalor" (VA 8.7.12).
Contrasting to this, somewhat distorted, literary description of Arcadia, the presence of a grave and, then , of Death. Again Panofsky:
The phrase Et in Arcadia ego can still be understood to be voiced by Death personified, and can still be translated as "even in Arcady I, Death hold sway," without being out of harmony with what is visible in the painting itself.
Erwin Panofsky, "Et in Arcadia Ego & the Elegiac Tradition"
Death is everywhere, and mortality a condition which affected also the most naive shepards of Arcadia:
Thus Poussin himself, while making no verbal change in the inscription, invites, almost compels, the beholder to mis-translate it by relating the ego to a dead person instead of to the tomb, by connecting the et with ego instead of with Arcadia, and by supplying the missing verb in the form of avixi or fui instead of a sum. The development of his pictorial vision had outgrown the significance of the literary formula, and we may say that those who under the impact of the Louvre picture, decided to render the phrase Et in Arcadia ego as "I, too, lived in Arcady," rather than as "Even in Arcady, there am I," did violence to Latin grammar but justice to the new meaning of Poussin's composition. Poussin's Louvre picture no longer shows a dramatic encounter with Death but a contemplative absorption in the idea of mortality. We are confronted with a change from thinly veiled moralism to undisguised elegiac sentiment.
Erwin Panofsky, "Et in Arcadia Ego & the Elegiac Tradition"
The illustration of Aubrey Beardsley for the third volume of "Savoy" contrasts totally with the Poussin's view of Arcadia. Here, the vision and concept itself of Arcadia, as described by Panofsky, is completely superseded. The Beardsley's Arcadia has nothing in common with the retired and pastoral environment of the literal common place. Here Arcadia looks just like an English garden, in which strange and exotic flowers are presents, in which a dandy gentleman can walk as in an aesthetic Wunderkammer. It could be the garden of a Des Esseintes or, ante litteram, the Garda Lake's residence of Gabriele D'Annunzio. This is definitively not the field of a sort of quite Eden on Earth, rather the decadent aesthetic and exotic beauty of a Villa's Garden.
The dandy gentleman depicted here, is not facing the grave with the astonished and dreaming attitude of the Poussin's shepards; here the dandy, who believes in the Total Work of Art, looks like he faces the Death represented by the grave challenging her, without necessarily being frightened nor surprised by the grave's presence in his Garden. And he is not driven by a fool braveness, rather than the aesthetic and decadent belief on Beauty, she who will win everything, including Death.
Other visual artists who worked on the same subject include:
Giovanni Francesco Barbierini detto il Guercino (1591-1666)
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)
Laurent de la Hyre (1606-1656)
Peter Scheemakers (1691-1781)
Francesco Zuccarelli (1702-1788)
Richard Wilson (1714-1782)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)
Léon Vaudoyer (1803-1872)
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)
George Wilhelm Kolbe (1877-1947)
Augustus John (1878-1961)
Adolfo De Carolis (De Karolis) (Montefiore Asia (AP), Jan. 6 1874 – Rome, Feb. 7 1928) was an Italian painter, engraver, illustrator and author of art.
In 1888, by advice of the architect Giuseppe Sacconi, he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
where he attended courses of fellow Domenico Ferri. In 1892, once graduated, he moved to Rome, following courses Domenico Bruschi and Alessandro Morani Art Museum Industrial and joining the group "In Arte Libertas" in 1897,
embracing aesthetic and philosophical positions, derived from the thought of John Ruskin and William Morris.
The believe in philosophical works of Ruskin pushed De Carolis to consider the artistic production as a sort of aesthetic and moral mission, in which the artisanal work of the artist follows his high spiritual attitude and role. Second consequence of this aesthetic attitude was the reconsideration of the whole artistic production and the removal of any limits or hierarchies towards artistic techniques. His works are also influenced by the fifteenth century Umbrian and Tuscany art. The Reinassance played for De Carolis around the same role played by the revival of Gothic for Morris.
Adolfo De Carolis – Illustrations from "Il Notturno" of Gabriele D'Annunzio
Adolfo De Carolis – Illustrations from "Il Notturno" of Gabriele D'Annunzio
Again, accordingly to the spiritual mission of the artist, every aspect of the human life should be fulfilled by art. The philosophical credo echoed the quest of a Gesamtkunstwerk, of the Total work of Art championed by Richard Wagner and by several national declination (especially Austrian) of the Symbolist and Art Nouveau Movements.
This aesthetic belief is quite strong and then evident in the production of De Carolis. While some production (such as the illustrations for Francesca da Rimini) are quite influenced by Ruskin and Pre-raphaelite taste, the artisticr relationship with the famous writer and aesthete Gabriele D'Annunzio influenced De Carolis towards a more symbolic and decadent style, such as one can see in the illustration of Fedra and Il Notturno. The new spelling of the surname "De Karolis," which uses the first decade of the century, attributable to the fashion of exoticism, influenced by d'Annunzio.
Adolfo De Carolis – Illustrations from "Francesca da Rimini" of Gabriele D'Annunzio
Coherently with his credo on the Gesamtkunstwerk, De Carolis was active also as painter and decorator. One of his masterpiece as decorator is the villa Costantini Brancadoro of San Benedetto del Tronto finished in 1904.
Anyway his fame was definitively bound to his activities as book and magazine illustrator. Apart as main and most famous illustrator of D'Annunzio (eventually, he illustrated not only books but also the famous Mottos of D'Annunzio, as we will see in a following article), he was also a successful illustrator of two of the most influencing turn of the century Italian art magazines "Novissima" and "Hermes". For this latter he prepared an article on Decorative Modern Art (February 1904), in which he states, again, the interest accrued over the years to the unity of the arts, decorative and applied arts.
Adolfo De Carolis – Illustrations from "LA figlia di Iorio" of Gabriele D'Annunzio
Adolfo De Carolis – Illustrations from "La Fiaccola" of Gabriele D'Annunzio
Original Lithograph, from "Le Pater" printed by F. Champenois and published by Henri Piazza in Paris, 1899.
Le Pater, consisted of a series of seven drawings. The seven verses of the Lord's prayer are presented with illustrations by Mucha.
"Mucha felt that 'Le Pater' was his supreme achievement as an illustrator.
The following picture are digitized from my personal book collection.
Joseph Maria Auchentaller first contact with the Jugendstil movement was with the Secession in Monaco of Bavaria between 1892 and 1896, he collaborated with the famous magazine Jugend and complements the artistic maturity that will see him lead in the nascent movement in Vienna, which had been a member since its foundation.
The dedication to graphic art continues as far as he collaborated withl Ver Sacrum in Vienna, for whom he wrote some covers and a large number of illustrations inspired mainly floral, with a style heavily influenced by Japonisme. Other works denoted also the heavy influences of artists such as Gustav Klimt:
In 1901 he moved to Grado, at that time a famous touristic resort of the Adriatic Coast. There, collaborating with architect On Julius Mayreder, Auchentaller fully decorated the Building of 'Pension Fortino'. Also in Grado Auchentaller designed one of his most famous posters, "Seebad Grade.Österreichisches Küstenland, dated 1906 and printed in Vienna by A. Berger, an admirable example of Jugendstil atmosphere and charm.
Attentive to art of the billboard, which took the full force in society for the dissemination of ideas, messages and products, designed and created numerous posters in which speech and language base of Plakatstil marked by a strong stylization and summary graphics.
After 1902 the artist progressively detached from the Viennese melting pot scenario and from the aesthetic of Secession, devoting mainly to the portrait and landscape painting.
Stanisław Wyspiański was the best known artist in the turn of the Century Poland, as well as the leading painter and poet from 'Młoda Polska' , the Polish declination of Art Nouveau.
He was author of play, poet, painter: a pure eclectic artist as commonly used at the Turn of the Century. Many information over his life and artistic production could be found on the quite complete reference page on wikipedia.
What we are presenting here in artnouveau.at is one of the masterpiece of the Polish artist, as well one of the greatest and fairly known Art Nouveau styled decoration. In August 1894 Wyspiański was in his birth city again, after an experience abroad. And in Kraków, he got heavily involved in the modernist movement. It was then he designed and partially made a polychrome for the Franciscan Church that was composed of flowery, geometrical and heraldic motifs.
These fitomoprphic motives constitute a real enhancement towards the symbolic decorative characteristic of Art Nouveau. The catholic Wyspiański conceived the illustration of a church using floral thus claiming for the creative and vivificate attitude of God. The growing flowers are then symbols of the God creative power; the abstract geometric decorations are symbols too of the mysterious force which is hidden behind the Creation.
Floral elements are typically feminine ones. The unlimited and outstanding mysterious presence of God can't be restricted to a single gender. It it also can't be restricted to any human like representation. Abstract is the aesthetic predominance in San Francis church, intuitive but never acknowledgeable the Logos of God.
Sometimes I feel that the time really flows accordingly to the concept of time of the Greek mythology. Sometimes I really feel that that eventually it could be true, at least as far as history of art is concerned.
We are descending from the Classic Greek Art, in which the human beings, and specially their bodies, were constructed after the artistic ideal, and the artistic ideal after the daemonic (aka supernatural) essence. The Greek artist conceived her composition as a sort of representation of the daemonic perfection, depicting bodies who eventually were actual representation of that ideal. And the idealistic art should represent a model to which the real human beings tend to approximate, in order to tend toward the upper nature of the daemons. The concept itself of KaloKagathia, the marriage between the Beauty and the Good, was symptomatic of this attitude: the ideal beauty should be paradigmatic of an ethic social behavior, thus pushing the ethic attitude to copy the perfection (ideal) of the work of art. In other terms, social should have been a sort of imitation of the perfection of the art. Notwithstanding Plato.
The Platonic revolution, assigned to the art the infamous role of copy of the copy, copy of the Nature which was considered copy of the upper Metaphysic world of the Eidolon (Ideas). This was so impacting that basically the art production which followed was conceived as an imitation, at least, of the Nature. Being inspired, the naturalistic artist should take inspiration from the beauty of the nature, a mirror of the divine perfection. On the other hand, the plein-air painting of the Impressionists tended to impress on the canvas the momentum, the impression coming our, again, from a Nature conceived as a source of inspiration.
The fault came with the Symbolism, at the end, a sort of Nietzschiean Return to the Origin, to the Source, finally. How should be considered the Symbolist attitude toward Nature then ?
After having read Alfred Kubin's sole roman, "Die Andere Seite" I was walking in a street, in a small village in northern Italy.
People continuously walking around a tower. At the upper of the tower, a clock which seems to attract all the people, and the people not being able to escape that fatidic attraction.
I was in that street, the same street as the one described and illuminated several times by Kubin. And I felt myself while I was reconstructing that street, and looking at that tower as per my influenced by Kubin eyes. I was able then to force the outside nature to my own vision. And my vision wasn't a copy of the Kubin's one; simply, I was using his same vocabulary, using which I was able to (re)describe the Nature. Once again, Daemon Triumphavit …
I was impressed, reading the essay on the Italian Liberty architecture by the authoritative art historian Rossana Bossaglia, by the her concerns regarding the development of an Art Nouveau (Liberty, as the movement is known in Italy) architecture. In particular she complained about the lack of a real innovative research of new forms in architecture during the Art Nouveau period in Italy as was the case, for example in Belgium or in Spain. Accordingly to Rossana Bossaglia, the problem with the Italian Art Nouveau architecture is the lack of a very meaningful research on the forms in the building's own structure, thus relegating all the evocative suggestions of the Art Nouveau' Lines to the decorative elements on the façade. In other terms, in Italy, accordingly to Bossaglia, the development of the national Art Nouveau style lacked a personality such as Victor Hortha in"Belgium, Odon Lechner in Hungary, Otto Wagner in Austrian or Anton Gaudi in Spain, thus limiting to very few examples the very contribution of Italy to the development to the international modernist style.
Anyway, even stated the lack of an outstanding personality or a school master, in Italy we could experience a very development of the know-how, of some techniques which are nevertheless impacting over the progression of the Art Nouveau style and technique. A brief digression here regarding the relationship between the style and the technique. In classical point of view, the work of art represents an ideal wedding (chemical ?) between technical skills, inspiration and personal style. The technique element, the Greek tekné constitutes a world of potential and possibility with which the artist could fully express his or her own feelings or inspirations. The point here is that classically an artist could really produce a work of art only after having mastered the expressive technique of his own artistic field. I have well printed in my head the words Arnold Schönberg, who in his theoretical masterpiece, Armonienlehere, complained that his fellows and disciples must know very well and master all the classical composition techniques prior to try any subsequent engagements into the new dodecaphonic arrangements. Giving life and form to a work of art (informing, using aesthetic terminology, a work of art) means basically mastering a technique at the same level which permits to a poet to fully express the complexity of his poetry and inspirations just after, and only after, having a deep knowledge of the language (including the possibility of providing complex images as consequence of mastering a complex vocabulary).
As far as the development of the Stile Liberty, the national declination of Art Nouveau in Italy, is concerned, one of the most exiting an fundamental contribution of the Italian artists at the turn of the century is due to their outstanding improvement of the iron workmanship techniques. Walking through some streets in Milan gives exactly the idea of the outstanding level that the technique of iron decorations reached during the turn of the century in Italy.
Artists such as Alessandro Mazzucotelli, Carlo Rizzarda or Umberto Bellotto, maybe not so known as other champions of art nouveau such as Alphonse Mucha or Gaudi, were eventually able to push to the extreme the ornamental possibilities of iron. Iron structures developed in other countries, of course: In the fin de siècle Barcelona or Paris, iron structures were used in architecture, sometime not just as decorative elements rather than as fully structural ones.
Anyway the technical level reached by the Italian artists permitted to create ornaments which present decorative ornaments with a very fitomorphic feeling. Moreover, seems that the researches for an art which could be overcharged by the same explosive mystic strength of Creative Nature, an art which could be able to mimic not the naturalistic elements rather than the very inner force of the Nature itself, these researches boosted by improving these new techniques.
The expressive potentiality of an art as a mirror of the symbolic aspect of the nature was significantly improved by a technique which could release the flexibility potentiality of the metallic materials. The researches of Mazzucotelli and the other Italian artist of the iron constituted not just a technical step forward in the direction of fitomorphic ornament: they constituted also an improvements of its symbolic dictionary.


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- Bone Folder
Project Instructions
Step 1 Trim a 4½"x6" piece from Melange tissue wrap.
Step 2 Attach tissue at the center of the card using Inkssentials™ collage glue stick.
Step 3 Dab some distress stains around the card. Blend the colors with wet paintbrush. Let dry.
Step 4 Stitch around the tissue block.
Step 5 Cut some frosted film and layer it on a medium butterfly from Melange tissue wrap.
Step 6 Push out any air bubbles by gently rubbing the surface with a bone folder.
Step 7 Cut butterfly out with scissors.
Step 8 Color the butterfly with distress stains on the frosted film surface.
Step 9 When dry, outline the butterfly with a black pen. Set aside.
Step 10 Dab Picket Fence distress paint on the Word Band 'Know in Your Heart You Are Loved' and Word Key 'Love' so paint gets in the grooves. Wipe off excess paint.
Step 11 Rub Jet Black Archival Inks™ pad across the painted Word Band to create greater contrast.
Step 12 Cut a 6" piece of crinkle ribbon, color it with Spiced Marmalade distress stain. When dry, thread the ribbon through the Word Key.
Step 13 Stitch down the middle of the cut out butterfly from Step 9 near the top of the card. Don't glue the wings down.
Step 14 Stitch Word Band below the butterfly.
Step 15 Attach Word Key below the Word Band using Inkssentials™ Glossy Accents™.